![Blood, Lead, and Tears: The Cult of Cybele as a Means of Addressing Ancient Roman Issues of Fertility – Discentes Blood, Lead, and Tears: The Cult of Cybele as a Means of Addressing Ancient Roman Issues of Fertility – Discentes](https://web.sas.upenn.edu/discentes/files/2020/08/cybele-2.jpg)
Blood, Lead, and Tears: The Cult of Cybele as a Means of Addressing Ancient Roman Issues of Fertility – Discentes
![Cybele or Magna Mater, Roman mother goddess She holds a key and the reins of a chariot drawn by two male lions. Copperplate engraving from Andrew Tooke's The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Cybele or Magna Mater, Roman mother goddess She holds a key and the reins of a chariot drawn by two male lions. Copperplate engraving from Andrew Tooke's The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GJ5FC6/cybele-or-magna-mater-roman-mother-goddess-she-holds-a-key-and-the-reins-of-a-chariot-drawn-by-two-male-lions-copperplate-engraving-from-andrew-tookes-the-pantheon-representing-the-fabulous-histories-of-the-heathen-gods-london-1757-2GJ5FC6.jpg)
Cybele or Magna Mater, Roman mother goddess She holds a key and the reins of a chariot drawn by two male lions. Copperplate engraving from Andrew Tooke's The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous
![Once Upon a Time...: The first Megalesian Festival and the dedication of the Temple of Magna Mater on Palatine Hill. Once Upon a Time...: The first Megalesian Festival and the dedication of the Temple of Magna Mater on Palatine Hill.](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZJXpDNhDcA/X3H936CwgtI/AAAAAAABSI0/grdFmE67iBodGeCL29jgSk2RuvfcKXoMgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/800px-1505_Mntegna_Die_Einfu%25CC%2588hrung_des_Kybele-Kults_in_Rom_National_Gallery_London_anagoria.jpg)
Once Upon a Time...: The first Megalesian Festival and the dedication of the Temple of Magna Mater on Palatine Hill.
![File:Magna mater, 150 dc ca. da orig. pergameneo del II secolo ac., dal tempio della magna mater.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Magna mater, 150 dc ca. da orig. pergameneo del II secolo ac., dal tempio della magna mater.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Magna_mater%2C_150_dc_ca._da_orig._pergameneo_del_II_secolo_ac.%2C_dal_tempio_della_magna_mater.jpg)
File:Magna mater, 150 dc ca. da orig. pergameneo del II secolo ac., dal tempio della magna mater.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![Magna Mater: Rites and Rituals of the Great Mother Goddess eBook by Harold R. Willoughby - EPUB Book | Rakuten Kobo United States Magna Mater: Rites and Rituals of the Great Mother Goddess eBook by Harold R. Willoughby - EPUB Book | Rakuten Kobo United States](https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/4980fe16-d93a-4bf4-b9c7-41e4387fd601/1200/1200/False/magna-mater-rites-and-rituals-of-the-great-mother-goddess-2.jpg)